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To: marcos who wrote (147005)	10/5/2004 4:12:42 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So you don't believe in honoring treaties...and you do know that JFK the first committed large forces, don't you? Statement by Secretary Rusk Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 18, 1966, "The U.S. Commitment in Viet-Nam: Fundamental Issues" (Broadcast Live on Nationwide Television Networks); Department of State Bulletin, March 7, 1966, p. 346. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: The Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Volume 4, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971), pp. 640-644 mtholyoke.edu 8888888888888888888 Vietnam War: The Documents - 2 Excerpts from Rusk-McNamara report to President Kennedy, 1961 mcadams.posc.mu.edu

To: marcos who wrote (147005)	10/5/2004 6:31:44 AM
From: Ron	Respond to of 281500

The Bloat That Hurts Our Spies By Paul C. Light Tuesday, October 5, 2004; Page A25 The congressional debate over intelligence reform continues to focus almost exclusively on arming the new national intelligence directorate with enough power to force cooperation among the government's 15 intelligence agencies. But even a nuclear weapon will not suffice unless Congress and the president find some way to flatten the bloated hierarchies the new agency will oversee and streamline the presidential appointments process that will fill its top jobs. The intelligence community is only the latest symbol of the federal government's hopelessly dysfunctional hierarchy. Between 1961 and 2004 the federal government added 41 new executive titles, including tongue twisters such as deputy associate deputy secretary, principal associate deputy undersecretary, deputy assistant secretary, deputy associate executive administrator, and assistant chief of staff to the assistant administrator. Once created, the layers spread like kudzu. Between 1961 and 2004, the number of senior title-holders swelled from 450 to almost 2,600. Whereas President John F. Kennedy appointed just 10 Cabinet secretaries, six deputy secretaries, 15 undersecretaries and 87 assistant secretaries, President Bush appointed 14 secretaries, 23 deputy secretaries, 43 undersecretaries and 257 assistant secretaries. That was before the creation of the Department of Homeland Security brought another secretary, deputy secretary, five undersecretaries and two dozen assistant secretaries. The intelligence community has added its own twists to the thickening. The FBI actually created a new layer of executive assistant directors after Sept. 11, 2001, and increased the number of senior title-holders by half. Just across the Potomac, the CIA placed a new deputy director for community management on a "who's on first" organization chart that only Abbott and Costello could love. At last count, it was led by a director, two deputy directors, two executive directors and at least seven other officials who are called directors. The bloat is not the only obstacle to effectiveness. The current appointments process virtually ensures that the new intelligence agency will wait months, if not years, to fill its top jobs. washingtonpost.com